Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

Or return everything he's looted; not just by the soldiers ad hoc -- that stuff's probably irrecoverable -- but on a wide scale, as a state act. Russia's hollowed out Eastern Ukraine of a huge amount of its cultural and material wealth.

Boeing didn't learn the Sears lesson. Sears should have been what Amazon is now: up to the 90s it had an unstoppable distribution network, priceless brand equity and its own credit card. But they went Gordon Gecko and self-cannibalized, while Jeff Bezos went Jeff Bezos and built what they could have been relatively effortlessly, from scratch.

Did you know that having a relative who shares things with you on Facebook is equivalent to having degrees in virology and political science? What an astounding age we live in.

The housepainters are just finishing up. We went with a fairly subdued dark blue color, with the front steps and porch slab in a kind of sand or dijon. Now that I get to see the total effect, it's rather more Ukraine flag than you'd expect. I swear it was unintentional.

"If you're a retired F-16 pilot, your services may be wanted in Ukraine.

"That's according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, in comments made just after meeting with President Zelenskyy in Kyiv."

https://www.scrippsnews.com/investigations/russia-ukraine-war-on-the-ground/ukraine-seeks-retired-f-16-pilots-to-fly-its-jets-while-it-trains-new-pilots

The true measure of a person's worth is the inverse of that of his detractors. Therefore strive at all times to make utter tossrags disparage you.

[Jeff Foxworthy voice:]

"If you ban your citizens from using the same social media services that you use to spread disinformation abroad.... you might be a dictatorship."

Let's see: NATO expansion: check. Wagner Group mutiny: check. Russia invaded for the first time since WWII: check.

Putin. What a visionary.

The nice thing about capturing Russian tanks *in Russia* is that sometimes you don't have to turn them into planters first. 🇺🇦

Has anyone asked the Marine Corps press office its take on publicly disputing the honorable service of a veteran of another branch, in the same breath as extolling one's own?

The Corps famously has a code of honor. It really ought to state its position on this.

Y'know, if you don't pretend to be knowledgable on matters of which you're not, and don't have time for people who do, that doesn't leave much reason to be on most forms of social media.

August 7th:
Feast day of Dometius of Persia and Donatus of Arezzo; in deference to vulgar practice now merged and observed as the feast of Dominos of Pizza. To those still groaning under the yoke of bitter servitude: if you're not delivered in 30 minutes, you're free.

The great thing about being a grownup AND having an air fryer is you can have egg & chips for breakfast every morning if you want.